Sorry when, I mean crop. I'm talking about viewing the photo in full screen mode/zooming in to fit the screen in landscape mode. That's when I noticed these kind of weird effects happening like dehazing, over sharpening and this kind of loss of detail
The photos were taken like 1 minute apart and the clouds are in the same position. Xperia was more true to the scene as in it was a hazy day. While the pixel was more true to the color science of the moment.
I'm talking about afterwards. Because in the viewfinder it looks fine. But after it's done post processing. It somehow loses detail as if they applied a dehazing filter to the photo. Idk how Lemdroid deals with compression but here is an example.
I don't think most people would disagree let alone experts. The issue with vivo's/Google's style of output is that it's hard to get right. With the current pixels they mess up hard because the moment you try to crop the entire image falls apart. This has been an issue with the pixels since the 5.
I recommend you guys also watch the video. But here is my consensus after watching a few of these videos. Comparing the vivo x100 series and the xiaomi 14 ultra
The vivo is more consistent but also more phone like ie pixel output. Tbf the vivo is what the pixel output should be.
The Xiaomi is more camera esquc and less consistent. But tries to be more like film and less digital.